More than 500 have expressed interest to participate in Merrill school district's charter school

2:34 AM,
Mar. 5, 2013

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Families are clamoring to get into the Merrill Area Public Schools charter school, which delivers public education resources to home-schooling families.

Bridges Virtual Academy is in the midst of its first school year after organizing as a charter school, and it now serves 507 students across the state.

On top of that, the Merrill school district so far has received about 700 open enrollment applications from parents who are considering sending their children to Merrill schools for the 2013-14 school year, and the vast majority of those applications are specifically for Bridges Virtual ...